
       RPostgreSQL version 0.5

We are pround to announce the availability of the RPostgreSQL package on CRAN
and its mirrors.  This package provides an a DBI-compliant interface between
PostgreSQL and R.

RPostgreSQL was developed as part of the Google Summer of Code 2008 program
by Sameer Kumar Prayaga <sameer.bits@gmail.com>.

Some highlights:

  o  Binary data store in PostgreSQL bytea datatype.

Known bugs/deficiencies:

  o  Arrays are not converted vector or other datastructure.

  o  Active issue list is at http://code.google.com/p/rpostgresql/issues/list

RPostgreSQL is hosted on Github https://github.com/tomoakin/RPostgreSQL

For security issues that should not directly go to public,
you may contact:

   Tomoaki Nishiyama <tomoakin@kenroku.kanazawa-u.ac.jp>
   Neil Tiffin <neilt@neiltiffin.com>
   Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
   Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
